Interview by Wisconsin Public Radio This has been a busy week, and the upcoming week will be even more so! As part of Wisconsin Public Radio’s observation of the 150 year anniversary of the Civil War, […]

By Vikki Bynum Ed Payne’s current series on Mississippi Piney Woods Civil War Unionists, “Crossing the Rubicon of Loyalties,” provides a timely context for a closer look at Oquin C. Martin, a former […]

During the past six months, I have received several messages from independent researcher Jeff Giambrone, who sent me a number of Civil War letters and newspaper articles that he has uncovered through his […]

Nancy Stevens wrote the following memoir some months after we began communicating about our mutual descent from the Bynum family of Jones County, Mississippi. Nancy was kind enough to send me excerpts from the Bible […]

The following essay is crossposted on the special Civil War Sesquicentennial website hosted by the University of North Carolina Press. Vikki Bynum, Moderator Reflections on the Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Victoria Bynum As […]